God save the Queen is just English words on an old German song. Germany and Prussia used it previously. And Liechtenstein still do. I remember Scotland playing Liechtenstein and the jocks booing it because they thought it was being played for them.

God save the Queen is crap. Why is it about some air fairy saving a person?Why is it played before England games? It's so fucking dull.Agree with many that the French, German, Taffs, Jocks, Italian, Yanks and even the old Soviet ones are so much better.

The problem with making Land of Hope and Glory the national anthem is that I would forever imagine it sung in an exaggerated Indian accent and after "mother of the three..." I'd 'hear' "SHUUUUT UUUP!!" and a noodly bit of sitar.